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Zachary P. Beane
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Zachary P. Beane's personal blog at xach.com covers programming and writing. Since 2007, 59 different Hacker News readers have linked it 98 times, most often “Xach's Vecto 1.0 released: Vecto - Simple Vector Drawing with Common Lisp”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- /gg/1997/1/profile/1/5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-06-11
- /naggum/articles/3065048088243385@naggum.no.html3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-01-06
- /naggum/articles/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-06-29
- Xach's Vecto 1.0 released: Vecto - Simple Vector Drawing with Common Lisp3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2007-09-29
- Re: Is Lisp Dying? Hello World (1999)2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-10-01
- /naggum/articles/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-18
- Best Explanation of why Lisp coders use Emacs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-07-07
- Buildapp – Create Executables with SBCL or CCL2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-11
- /lisp/jrm-clos-guide.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-10
- /img/doing-it-wrong.jpg2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-13
What Hacker News says?
I always liked this poster: http://www.xach.com/img/doing-it-wrong.jpg (from http://xach.livejournal.com/170311.html )
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on “John McCarthy Has Died”Submitted Reddit vs Hacker News traffic as a story · 84 points
HN discussion"Microsoft is a once-in-a-civilization disaster." (from http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3243717585684194@naggum.... )
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on “The Next Microsoft”Submitted Why does Lisp use cons cells? (1998) as a story · 81 points
HN discussionFunny, the original PowerBook they showed had a mechanical keyboard and a trackball, things that are much more compelling, and definitely more useful to me personally. You know, as a professional programmer I sort of take pride that I am immune to all this "innovation" crap. It is surprisingly easy to do as well. Erik Naggum sums it up pretty well [0]: "... they don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Micr…
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on “MacBook Pro”Submitted Lisp-generated movie box office visualization as a story · 36 points
HN discussionThis reminded me of this old post from the late Erik Naggum on comp.lang.lisp: https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3147591653434816_-_@nag...
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on “Overkill objects for everyday life”Submitted ZS3 - Amazon S3 from Common Lisp as a story · 21 points
HN discussionIt was named after the Pulp Fiction character. https://www.xach.com/gg/1997/1/profile/1/
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on “Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder”Submitted How active is Hacker News? as a story · 18 points
HN discussionhttps://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/notes.html
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on “Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google”Submitted Buildapp – Create Executables with SBCL or CCL as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThere is a comp.lang.lisp archive published in 2009. > In 2009, Ron Garret published a 700MB archive file of all of comp.lang.lisp https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/notes.html
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on “Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google”Submitted Taste for the Web as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYou assumption "no one uses anymore" is glaringly wrong in this case. Those archives are full of useful and informative information. Not everthing changes fast. Common Lisp has been around for 30 years basically unchanged. The discussions back there can be truly informative for today. It does take time to wade thought it, but people have been collecting (via the google archive, when it existed, sigh) curated lists.…
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on “Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google”Submitted Xach's Vecto 1.0 released: Vecto - Simple Vector Drawing with Common Lisp as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFun fact: the name is a Pulp Fiction reference :) https://www.xach.com/gg/1997/1/profile/1/ "It took us a little while to come up with the name. We knew we wanted an image manipulation program like Photoshop, but the name IMP sounded wrong. We also tossed around XIMP (X Image Manipulation Program) following the rule of when in doubt prefix an X for X11 based programs. At the time, Pulp Fiction was the hot movie and…
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on “Gimp is 25 years old today”Submitted Visualization: Web traffic patterns for Reddit, Hacker News, Digg effects as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI always liked this post by Erik Naggum: The whole idea that anything can be so "shared" as to have no value in itself is not a problem if the rest of the world ensures that nobody _is_ starving or needing money. For young people who have parents who pay for them or student grants or loans and basically have yet to figure out that it costs a hell of a lot of money to live in a highly advanced society, this is not su…
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on “The Internet Relies on People Working for Free”Submitted Lisp Critic: criticizing your Common Lisp coding style as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn short Common Lisp has two namespaces, one for functions and macros and a second for variable names - Scheme has one namespace. So you have fewer conflicts in naming in Common Lisp. In Scheme there is a lot of concern about hygienic macros that don't mess up the namespace. For more on that here is an inflammatory but well thought out exposition. http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3236789642671151@naggum.... The b…
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on “John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language”Submitted New and Improved Lisp Syntax (1997) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNaggum on UIs: "this is my _workbench_, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. when I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer." Full post: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3065048088243385@naggum....
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on “Programmers are not different, they need simple UIs”Submitted Best Explanation of why Lisp coders use Emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's my favorite part of that translation of the Tao Te Ching, too. Additionally I find value in this rant from Erik Naggum: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3141310154691952@naggum.... like, if you aren't using today's fad language in the very latest version of the IDE, you'll be left behind. aaaugh! but it's good that some people run like they are scared out of their wits. if they suddenly disappear over the…
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on “There are too many shiny objects and it is killing me”Submitted Taste for the Web (2005) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion...Click a button, or invoke a command and an empty, unremarkable rectangle appears. Little you know that it is a relic from an age long past... Emacs to me, first and foremost, is a doorway to another dimension, a place you can escape to from the absolute drudgery of the contemporary software development. ...A relic, yes, but it seems as alive as ever, a dark block inside it, blinking, like a pulse on a medical ins…
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on “Why GNU Emacs?”Submitted Re: Is Lisp Dying? Hello World (1999) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI can't say I hate him, but I don't think the past decade of his various efforts has "redeemed him", as it were. I don't think he's "unredeemable", and he certainly deserves a lot of positive credit for a lot of things. To me it seems like many people laud his charity efforts, but for them it's frequently an unexamined praise because "charity" is an effective applause light. It's hard to imagine that much cash attac…
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on “How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates?”Rather than rehash the ancient argument once again, I defer to this post: https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3225161536947499@naggum... (KMP was on both Common Lisp and Scheme standard committees; Erik Naggum was an eloquent, if controversial, Lisp expert)
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on “State of the Common Lisp ecosystem, 2020”
